as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
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Recent Examples of syllable
His usually calm voice was rising with each syllable.
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Only the vowels change from syllable to syllable, and the effect is just wondrous.
—Sam Corbin, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Now he’s arrived at its core, where each syllable is purposeful and every piano key is in its right place.
—Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
All the while, Owens blurs hypnosis and seduction, speaking in bursts of two or fewer syllables that beckon the body and mind to loosen.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Only the vowels change from syllable to syllable, and the effect is just wondrous.
—Sam Corbin, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Now he’s arrived at its core, where each syllable is purposeful and every piano key is in its right place.
—Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
All the while, Owens blurs hypnosis and seduction, speaking in bursts of two or fewer syllables that beckon the body and mind to loosen.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllable
Noun
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Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
25 Sep. 2024
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But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 July 2024
Noun
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Those rules are broken and the results are messy, monstrous and metaphorical in a hilariously jaw-dropping hoot about beauty and self-worth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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Jon Heder is a dull vacancy that Ferrell keeps trying to spur into action, but the rest of the supporting cast is a hoot, particularly Will Arnett and Amy Poehler as a rival skating duo.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Not just bumping a guy to get a hit on the stat sheet, but maybe getting a good lick on someone and kinda waking the team a little bit.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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There were some Kiefer Sherwood shenanigans, a gratuitous Tom Wilson takedown of J.T. Miller and Dubois getting an extra lick in on Hughes for good measure.—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
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The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.—
The Editors,
National Review,
30 Sep. 2024
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As anyone who’s watched an iota of sports programming over the past few years can attest, the betting business doesn’t traffic in subtlety.—
Sean Gregory / Boston,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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He was concerned as a boy that even an iota of doubt could lead him to a different fate, relegating him to an eternity separated from his family, particularly his parents.—
Rick Rojas,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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“Syllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllable. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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